Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Editors' Note vi
4. Introduction: The State Is "Back In" 1
5. Legitimacy, Discipline, and Institutions: Three Necessary Conditions for the Birth of the Modem State* 11
6. The "Private," the "Public," the State 34
7. Law and Jurists in the Formation of the Modem State in Italy 62
8. Center and Periphery 74
9. The State and Public Finance: A Hypothesis Based on the History of Late Medieval Florence 97
10. The Courts 136
11. Church, Religion, and State in the Early Modem Period 152
12. The Italian League and the Policy of the Balance of Power at the Accession of Lorenzo de' Medici 166
13. Index 200
14. CONTRIBUTORS 213